Why is abraham lincoln on the penny and the $5 bill?
PENNY Lincoln, the first of a series of Presidents to appear on U.S. coins after 1900, first appeared on the penny in 1909 (released on August 2), under a plan put forward by Teddy Roosevelt in honor of the centennial of Lincoln’s birth. More on the history of our current coins & the portraits on them: http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/i… http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cf… As for the $5 bill. Though many different people and designs appeared on paper currency through the years –and Washington, Jackson and Lincoln were frequently among them– early in the 20th century they began to put the portraits on the bills that have since become the standards (set in 1928). The first was, not surprisingly, Washington.
